# inshallah

> English word · Interjection · IPA /ˌɪnˈʃɑ.lə/ · frequency rank #65,212

## Definitions
1. Expressing the speaker’s wish for a given future event to occur, and also generally their emphasis on its contingency upon the divine will.
2. Expressing a skeptical affirmative, to indicate the unlikeliness of events, as if they need a divine intervention to come about.

## Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic إِنْ شَاءَ ٱللَٰه (ʔin šāʔa llāh, literally “if God has willed [it]”).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/inshallah